Wednesday, October 05, 2005

The Cynic's Dictionary

BODY PIERCING - Self-mutilation as a fashion statement among nonconforming young people who crave peer acceptance. A practice generally frowned upon by concerned parents who used to gain their own peer acceptance by taking hallucinogenic drugs and plotting to blow up the Pentagon.

FREEDOM
- 1. In the U.S., the sacred right to speak and act according to one's conscience, except when dealing with sensitive special-interest groups or militant Republican administrations. 2. What the U.S. frequently exports to developing nations, by force if necessary.

GEEK
- The lowest form of life at a carnival and the highest form of life at a technology company, which implies the superiority of carnivals.

LAWYER
- A personal advocate hired to bend the law on behalf of a paying client; for this reason considered the most suitable background for entry into politics.

OPPORTUNIST
- Someone skilled at exploiting people and events for personal gain, a behavioral aberration generally punished with fame and riches.

REVOLUTIONARY
- An oppressed person waiting for the opportunity to become an oppressor.

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

So you still live!

I must say I was quite concerned with your myspace disappearance! I am once again looking forward to your 'normal perspective' on life! Write on my friend! LOL...email me sometime!!

Eric said...

But I don't know your email address. Mine is booshnoogs at yahoo dot com. (I wrote it that way to avoid the spammers). Email sometime so that I will have your address as well.

Anonymous said...

that was amusing...clever. I liked it.

Anonymous said...

Commenting anonymously is sooooo mysterious.

Anonymous said...

i'd comment anonymously, but you can tell who i am anyway, so it doesn't matter. i really loved the 'revolutionary' definition. seems machiavelli had that one down pat. kc

Anonymous said...

You have to express more your opinion to attract more readers, because just a video or plain text without any personal approach is not that valuable. But it is just form my point of view

Anonymous said...

I am not going to be original this time, so all I am going to say that your blog rocks, sad that I don't have suck a writing skills